You've got mail, and maybe gonorrhea

This was the email card I anonymously sent to Brian, Scott, Megan, and Russell. There's a new website you can use to send ecards to casual sex partners notifying them that you've contracted an STD (good explanation here). While I sent my email as a joke, I think it's really sad that there is a website like this. While I think it's a good thing because people do sleep around and should tell their sex partners, I think its really sad that its even necessary.

Abstinence is the best way to not have STD's. If I were single today, there is no way I would sleep around! I would make out alot though!

Additionally, I think its hard for gays to be sexually abstinent because there is no marker signifying sexual relations is okay. With straights, marriage can signify when it is okay to have sex. Gays don't have that marker and have to make them up on their own. For me, Brian and I waited a month to kiss and didn't do anything sexual for 5-6 months. I wish I had a marker like marriage to say, "Now that we are committed to each other, I will give myself to you." Unfortunately, the many conservatives who think gays are immoral just perpetuate the immorality by denying marriage rights to us.